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Thread #110864   Message #2331550
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
02-May-08 - 05:58 PM
Thread Name: One morning in the month of May
Subject: RE: One morning in the month of May
No, no, no... with May songs it's not 'fol de rol' it's Fa la la la la la la... as in Thomas Morley's famous Maying song....

'Now is the month of Maying,
When merry lads are playing,
Fa la la la la la la

Each with his bonny lass,
upon the greeny grass,
Fa la la la la.

The Spring clad all in gladness,
Doth laugh at Winter´s sadness,
Fa la la la la.

And to the bagpipes sound,
The nymphs tread out their ground,
Fa la la la la.

Fie then! why sit we musing,
Youth´s sweet delight refusing?
Fa la la la la.

Say dainty nymphs and speak,
shall we play Barley break?
Fa la la la la.


LTS